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by Jim Eshelman
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:58 pm
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24
Replies: 60
Views: 8197
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Re: SLR 3/10/24

Handbook of Sidereal Natal Interpretations is officially published on print-on-demand site Lulu.
Jim Eshelman wrote:
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:51 am
t Mars on Asc -5°33'
t Jupiter on N -0°02'
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r Mercury on Z +0°34'
t Venus on EP +1°15'
t Pluto on Asc +5°32'


t Jupiter op r Mercury 0°35'[/b]
by Jim Eshelman
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: Transits
Topic: Bump on the noggin
Replies: 4
Views: 66
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Re: Bump on the noggin

SteveS wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2024 9:22 am
Were you intoxicated?
No. That is, I didn't feel intoxicated and had consumed (when you add up the ounces) the equivalent of two glasses of wine over the prior four to five hours.
by Jim Eshelman
Sun Mar 17, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: Transits
Topic: Bump on the noggin
Replies: 4
Views: 66
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Bump on the noggin

Last night, Marion and I ran an event for a friend's housewarming. After it was over and I was lowering a large cart of fur cases of wine glasses down the back stairs, something missed on the last step and I went tumbling, landing on top of the cart and banging my head on a desk and my knee into the...
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Major Planet Sign Transits
Topic: Mars in Aquarius
Replies: 26
Views: 24418
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Re: Mars in Aquarius

Mars entered Aquarius today.
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: "Many Things"
Topic: ROSA's birthday
Replies: 20
Views: 12535
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Re: ROSA's birthday

BTW, next year (a year from tomorrow) is the 50th anniversary of ROSA's founding.
by Jim Eshelman
Thu Mar 14, 2024 10:59 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Will my son get a job?
Replies: 16
Views: 284
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Re: Will my son get a job?

Parporna, where does he live? Did you remain in Indiana and perhaps he's at IU? Or is he somewhere else? What's his degree in? He's at an interesting time in his life, with Uranus aspecting his Mercury-Jupiter - it could be a pretty amazing breakthrough year. But he has some hard stuff to get throug...
by Jim Eshelman
Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:53 pm
Forum: Synastry Teachings & Resources
Topic: Planets to local angles?
Replies: 1
Views: 67
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Re: Planets to local angles?

Local and natal angles are interchangeably valid. I've never looked at charts for people in different locations.

For an example, look at Marion's and my charts to each other both local and natal.
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:42 pm
Forum: Publications & Software
Topic: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs
Replies: 17
Views: 843
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Re: Angular natal planet finder for SSRs

Similar and way better than we have. If this were screen and easily interactive iterative, the next step would be to edit long/lat max/min so that, on seeing initial output, one can then narrow it. (My idea - how I would use it in practice - is to get the largest view than then do a digital-iterativ...
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:36 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Will i got married or will remain single?
Replies: 17
Views: 3365
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Re: Will i got married or will remain single?

Neptune is more or less that way for everyone, depending on the shape your life was in when it started.

The universe doesn't punish. It does, however, fulfill the effects of things we set inotion.
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:01 am
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: My chart
Replies: 2
Views: 79
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Re: My chart

I see a person with strong aggression needs who likes to overpower others and be a bit mysterious. Mars, Moon, and Saturn are your strongest needs: needs for power rand dominance; to respond and adapt malleably to your social, psychological, and physical environments; and the need to survive, contro...
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:47 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Birth Natal Chart Reading 2023
Replies: 44
Views: 9309
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Re: Birth Natal Chart Reading 2023

Jim Eshelman wrote:
Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:20 pm
...I think nothing will come of this - it's too late. But if that's not correct, the chart says you'll get your money by some significant surprise in the last half of March.

Provided, of course, that there is anything of substance to this technique.
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Will i got married or will remain single?
Replies: 17
Views: 3365
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Re: Will i got married or will remain single?

I think will not get married as no relationships so far. :x :| "Ever" is a long time. A lot of things aren't going to go your way until this long Neptune transit to your Sun finishes. I understand that the internal pressure to find someone right now is strong. In addition to long-term patterns sugg...
by Jim Eshelman
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:33 am
Forum: The Planets
Topic: Saturn and its values, dignities, force, etc.
Replies: 1
Views: 100
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Re: Saturn and its values, dignities, force, etc.

Black Piano wrote:
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:57 am
Regarding, whether Saturn means more spiritual wealth or material gain this can be answered by looking at Bill Gates' chart (no time av.): Bill Gates: Oct 28th 1955
Bill Gates was born at 10:00 PM.
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:54 pm
Forum: "Many Things"
Topic: What about animals and insects?
Replies: 5
Views: 233
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Re: What about animals and insects?

Though cats can be born at any time of day or night, I think the vast majority are born at night and in the early hours of the morning. I think if you estimate sunrise you're likely to be closer. Or, you could just pick the time of Marion's last SSR [totally logical, right?], same day, 11:11 AM with...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: I need a new girl-friend soon
Replies: 2
Views: 117
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Re: I need a new girl-friend soon

Currently, your solar arc directions have strong aspects but not the kind that are life-changing. Saturn is on your Venus (bad for love and happiness) and Venus on your Mars (raging passions and things like really, really needing a girlfriend). But solar arcs seem only to trigger life's biggest even...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: I need a new girl-friend soon
Replies: 2
Views: 117
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Re: I need a new girl-friend soon

Hello, I am Dan/Black Piano and this is my chart: B-data: July 22nd 1983 (3:45p.m.) in Braunschweig, Germany. (Asc should be Libra 20 deg. or so in Campanus Houses) Specifically, it's 21°41' Libra. Welcome to Solunars, Dan, I am single, and sexless, and fruitless (almost no money) since 10 years ag...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:58 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR
Replies: 85
Views: 15944
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Re: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR

Congratulations1 (Be positive :) )
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Summary and Conclusions

People are not simply collections of parts: we are unique compositions. After analysis comes synthesis. Astrological synthesis is the coalescing of seemingly isolated facts about a person into a meaningful whole by understanding the relative strength of various needs and how they bond, intertwine, d...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:06 pm
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Something Further

Analysis, synthesis, powerful feeling, and pattern formation through repeated ritual: These four keys leverage diverse functions of your brain. Not only are they perfectly good skills, but they also signal the brain to wake up to what you are doing. A further faculty is worth mentioning. Neurobiolog...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Ritual or Habit Formation

Another section of your brain controls biologically essential functions that rely on automatic, unthinking repetition. Though sometimes linked to pattern recognition, I think it best to label this pattern formation. Specifically, this includes habit, learning repetitive procedures, and other functio...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:05 pm
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Strong Feeling

A third part of our brains is primarily responsible for strong feeling. The key to activating and strengthening this function is simple: Once you have the raw information of a horoscope extracted, have applied priority and grouping, and are beginning to see it as a whole thing, you must feel into it...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:04 pm
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Analysis and Synthesis

One part of your brain is especially responsible for analysis and another for synthesis. Analysis is linear and logical, collating and organizing explicit information, breaking down something whole into component parts. Think of it as carefully reading the printed lines of a book. In astrology, we d...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:03 pm
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Use Your Whole Brain

To understand someone’s whole self through their horoscope (or any other way), you have to bring your own whole self to the game. In the final analysis, an astrologer’s job is to understand a person’s entire nature so far as another person can do that. When it comes to “whole selves,” it takes one t...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:58 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Grouping Commonalities

You probably already have observed that, when faced with more information than your brain can easily integrate, you automatically start grouping, which includes two main tactics: Identifying and collating similar things. Identifying and contrasting dissimilar things. Similarities among astrological ...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:56 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Priority

In a swarm of complex, interactive information, all facts are not equally important. Some information dominates, having greater voice or a larger part in the resulting whole. You likely already apply priority in your study and practice: For example, with the constellations you know that signs holdin...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:53 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Managing Complexity in Astrology

Several tactics help make sense of the complexity of a horoscope. These include prioritizing information and grouping data to reduce the effect of complexity, and using multiple parts of your brain together in ways that increase your capacity to deal with complexity you encounter. Each of these tact...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:52 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Emergence

Our goal is not merely to identify the myriad components of a psyche and assent to their incomprehensible complexities and trajectories. We seek understanding of the integrated whole. Nature answers our need: Complex systems theory tells us that from complexity arises emergence. In simple terms, eme...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Complexity

Human behavior is complex. By complex, I mean each person’s psyche is a self-contained, discrete system with vast parts connected and interacting according to rules that make sense within that psyche – but not necessarily outside of it. Each person’s psyche has its own internal logic. For example, w...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:44 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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The Rule of Six

If you have tried to understand all the important information available in someone’s natal chart – your own or that of someone else – you surely have seen the limits of your mind for holding a coherent picture of someone based on all information available. This is a primary weakness of computer-gene...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: Misc. on Natal Astrology
Topic: Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis
Replies: 12
Views: 226
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Training Your Brain for Astrological Synthesis

An astrologer’s job is to understand the whole of a person’s nature from their natal chart (so far as another person can do that) and to assist them to understand themselves as a single whole thing. Historic approaches to delineation (especially those that are heavily house-driven) usually have simp...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 9:58 am
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: Surprise, surprise!?! "Outstanding incident"?
Replies: 2
Views: 95
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Re: Surprise, surprise!?! "Outstanding incident"?

That Moon transit to your natal Moon should be pretty exciting - SLR or no. And, though not foreground, the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction is within 0°05' mundanely. Here are the main factors I get for that SLR for Reyk (mostly natal planets and their interactions). Besides the transiting partile Jupite...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:36 am
Forum: The Planets
Topic: Understanding Venus' Fundamental Needs (meditation)
Replies: 0
Views: 61
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Understanding Venus' Fundamental Needs (meditation)

The proposal is that everybody spend about one week on the following meditation, keeping a record of your results and sharing them here. Enjoy! Fundamental Need of VENUS: Affection needs: loving and being loved, giving and receiving nurturing. Affiliation (including separation and rejection), sex, ...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:35 am
Forum: The Planets
Topic: Understanding Mercury's Fundamental Needs (meditation)
Replies: 3
Views: 150
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Re: Understanding Mercury's Fundamental Needs (meditation)

Thanks, Veronica :) I decided not to really write about this one because it would be boring unnecessary VOLUMES. Mercury - surely because I'm a Virgo - is the every scrap of thing you get from me, every breath in and out. Ultimately, I exist in the universe for no other reason than to receive, organ...
by Jim Eshelman
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Horoscopes of Interest
Topic: The Lindbergh Kidnapping
Replies: 0
Views: 85
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping

A new article in today's New York Times has stirred some thought: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping: A Grisly Theory and a Renewed Debate https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/nyregion/charles-lindbergh-baby.html I had never thought the Lindbergh kidnapping made sense astrologically. I was sometimes embarr...
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: Misc. on Solunar Returns
Topic: Conception/Pregnancy in SR/LR
Replies: 12
Views: 3459
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Re: Conception/Pregnancy in SR/LR

lexi2828 wrote:
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:13 pm
Hey Jim! Just wanted to let you know that you were right. I conceived in February like you said! Got my positive pg test last night. 😊 I hope everything goes smoothly. Thank you so much.
Congratulations! Have a happy pregnancy and delivery :)
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:31 am
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Relationships and career
Replies: 6
Views: 716
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Re: Relationships and career

For relationship matters, start by reading these summaries of your three most important sign placements. Relationship matters are sprinkled through all of them and, in any case, you will likely find much else of interest: Sun in Capricorn: https://www.solunars.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=35#p164 Moon i...
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 09, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Relationships and career
Replies: 6
Views: 716
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Re: Relationships and career

I'd be interested in being told when (months and years) my relationships and likewise career held major significance for me. LOL, you lived through those times... I assume you already know the times in the past when your relationships and career held major significance for you. :lol: That is, I wan...
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:04 am
Forum: Discuss Your Own Horoscope
Topic: Relationships and career
Replies: 6
Views: 716
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Re: Relationships and career

Could someone help me out with romantic relationships and career advice? Do you have specific questions? For anyone else looking in, Billy is a Capricorn-Gemini with Mars in Libra. Saturn is the only foreground planet (3°27' from IC). Of his many aspects, some standouts are Moon square a Jupiter-Ur...
by Jim Eshelman
Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:50 am
Forum: "Many Things"
Topic: What about animals and insects?
Replies: 5
Views: 233
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Re: What about animals and insects?

All living things likely have a horoscope. What the individual factors mean surely varies with the sophistication of nervous systems (we find this even among humans across time, and humans varying wit how old they are), but the essentials are likely identical. The problem is getting an exact birth m...
by Jim Eshelman
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24
Replies: 60
Views: 8197
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SLR 3/10/24

Mar 10, 2024, 5:27:51 AM PDT, home JUPITER = 7 Benefic = 11 , Malefic = 4 Dignity = 7 , Indignity = 1 Change = 4, Spotlight = 0 Transit = 16 , Natal = 8 Impressions: With Jupiter 0°02' from an angle, this should be unusually positive and prospering. Jupiter's one sterling aspect is an opposition to...
by Jim Eshelman
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:51 am
Forum: Sidereal Lunar Returns
Topic: JAE SLRs & Demi-SLRs 2023-24
Replies: 60
Views: 8197
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Re: Demi-SLR 2/25/24

This two weeks has been rather "nothing in particular." There are small trends, and they all fit well enough - a skin ting that flared up, extra demands juggling finances as we navigate our way out of Marion losing over six months of income - but nothing strenuous, I've never liked natal Neptune sup...
by Jim Eshelman
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:22 am
Forum: "Many Things"
Topic: Horoscopes of Sidereal Pioneers
Replies: 21
Views: 49126
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Re: Horoscopes of Sidereal Pioneers

Thanks for the nudge. I hadn't done that and have now updated it. - I should probably update all of these, including adding mundoscopes.
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:49 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR
Replies: 85
Views: 15944
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Re: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR

Your March 25 SLR has a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in the rising foreground and your own Mercury-Uranus to the fore. ...I don't see anything for 3/25 What in the world did I calculate? You're right: This is wrong. (I did six months of SLRs and six months of Demi-SLRs with TMSA to make that post and...
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR
Replies: 85
Views: 15944
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Re: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR

Your March 25 SLR has a Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in the rising foreground and your own Mercury-Uranus to the fore. For the April 21 SLR, if you don't already have a good result I suggest you put your attention on something else for four weeks (transiting Saturn to natal Sun-Saturn very closely ang...
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:04 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR
Replies: 85
Views: 15944
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Re: 2023 - TERRIBLE SSR

SLR is bad with Neptune barrly in the foreground and nothing else. I get for than that for your SLR from last night, including your Venus-Jupiter coming foreground; but I agree, I don't like the double Neptune. (At best, it's going to leave you wondering and doubting, even if there is a good result...
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:08 am
Forum: The Planets
Topic: The Moon vs Venus
Replies: 11
Views: 5674
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Re: The Moon vs Venus

Have you heard the theory that the planets are actually the Gods? Saturn for example is Satan? What do you think the text on comparative mythology called Hamlets Mill and the idea that archaeoastronomy is encoded in mythology? I think those comparisons to injustice both to astrology and to mytholog...
by Jim Eshelman
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:00 am
Forum: Mundane Forecasts
Topic: U.S. Ingresses Mar 6 - Apr 3, 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 429
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Re: U.S. Ingresses Mar 6 - Apr 3, 2024

This is now fully ready (except for adding the illustrations, which I can do later).
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:10 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: JAE SSR 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 147
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Re: JAE SSR 2024

r Venus on N -0°36' t Venus on IC -0°34' t Uranus on Z -0°17' ------------------------ r Pluto on Asc +3°07' With the two Venuses approximately the same distance from an angle (same side), there should be a place about half a degree east of Denver that has both Venses exactly angular. Unfortunately...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: Sidereal Solar Returns
Topic: JAE SSR 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 147
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JAE SSR 2024

Marion wanted me to get a head start on planning whatever we're doing for my birthday next October. It looks like we're heading back to Denver. There are two major transits in my 2024 SSR it would be nice to optimize: Uranus to my Venus and Jupiter to my Moon. However, the Jupiter transit to my Moon...
by Jim Eshelman
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:57 am
Forum: The Planets
Topic: The Moon vs Venus
Replies: 11
Views: 5674
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Re: The Moon vs Venus

Venus embodies our affection needs: needs to be loving and being loved, giving and receiving nurturing, affiliation, including such things as sex, shared play. Broadly thing of love, social connection, pleasure. Biologically, Venus signifies the hormonal system in general and especially the hypothal...